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1778. 4 Sittings. [Friday] Nov. 20.

Securities for Zemindars or Land Holders.
It was said in the Defence that, the Revenue being in arrear Golam Naby threaten’d to sell the Zemindarry, and the Plaintiff desired he might rather remain in Confinement untill he paid, then have the Zemindarry Sold.
The Plea was only Not Guilty, without any notice of Justification.
Impey. The allegation in the Defence was that this was a fraud on the Company’s Orders Practised by Dr. Mills, is an aggravation of the Offence and would encrease the Fine if this was Vindictive and a Criminal Prosecution, but in an Action we are only to give a recompense to the Plaintiff for the Injury he has received. The Plaintiff was a Man of Property though now a Pauper: the Defendant is said by the Witness to be reputed worth forty thousand Rupees: The Plaintiff was confined a Month in a Damp Godown, by which he got an illness, beside being kept much longer in that slighter kind of confinement called Nuzzer-Bund, that is Custody in Sight, because the Peons are to be his
Securities